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2017 Ohio County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ohio County, WV went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 781st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ohio County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 22, 2017 12:45 | August 23, 2017 23:30 | 1d 10h | 3,485 | 27K |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 14:15 | May 4, 2017 00:30 | 2d 10h | 2,721 | 20K |
| 3 | August 15, 2017 10:15 | August 15, 2017 15:00 | 4h 45m | 2,339 | 11K |
| 4 | August 10, 2017 06:45 | August 10, 2017 07:00 | 15m | 2,313 | 578 |
| 5 | October 13, 2017 14:00 | October 13, 2017 22:45 | 8h 45m | 1,627 | 3,355 |
| 6 | August 15, 2017 17:45 | August 15, 2017 22:30 | 4h 45m | 1,417 | 4,789 |
| 7 | March 31, 2017 19:45 | March 31, 2017 23:00 | 3h 15m | 1,286 | 2,850 |
| 8 | February 9, 2017 04:30 | February 10, 2017 18:45 | 1d 14h | 1,098 | 5,053 |
| 9 | June 15, 2017 19:15 | June 16, 2017 15:45 | 20h 30m | 1,065 | 5,363 |
| 10 | June 23, 2017 10:30 | June 25, 2017 15:30 | 2d 5h | 1,002 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 65 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Ohio County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2017 | 12.5 hrs | 2.64 | 11.5 hrs | 2.55 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of West Virginia's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 32,858 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Ohio County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ohio County, WV annual power outage report, 2017, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/west-virginia/ohio-county